The man Tao Xiaoyu had hooked up with was named Xiang Kai.
I did not know who Xiang Kai was, but he was the chairman of the Jiangling Group.
I knew the Jiangling Group. It was another major real estate company, but it could not match the Weihai Group's strength.
When Du Ruhai was alive, the Weihai Group was the big brother of Lanjiang City's entire real estate industry, and every other company had to play little brother.
But after Du Ruhai died, several major companies wanted to bring the Weihai Group down.
With one fewer person sharing the cake, everyone else could naturally get a bigger slice.
The news story Song Xiaotian showed me was about a major project recently announced in Lanjiang City, which all the big companies intended to bid on.
As an industry giant, the Weihai Group naturally would not pass up a project that big.
In the past, whenever the Weihai Group bid on a project, the other companies were only there to go through the motions.
If they did not even go through the motions, it would make the rigging obvious.
Although the other companies all knew it was rigged, they still had to obediently show up and play along with the Weihai Group's charade. That was how powerful and domineering the Weihai Group had once been.
But things were different now. Times had changed. The Weihai Group's most fearsome figure had just passed away a little while ago, and the whole group was in turmoil. With power and interests changing hands, the company's overall interests were bound to be affected too.
Securing this major project would not only benefit the Weihai Group's future development, but also eliminate the impact of Du Ruhai's death.
At this point, someone stepped forward to challenge the Weihai